Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

You hear that boy laughing?you think he's all fun; But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done; The children laugh loud as they troop to his call, And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.